Much indebted to Mr. Klein. A good and honorable man. And if CK wants to use the word elegancy you let him use it. He’s that kind of guy.

To the league we go! One thought on each NFL franchise, a bunch of thoughts on the Chicago Bears and a Super Bowl prediction!

The Bears are going to be a good team with a bad quarterback until they wake up and stop playing the bad quarterback. If Mitch Trubisky doesn’t get 8 or more starts in 2017, then 2017 will be a wasted season. Sadly I’m starting to think he won’t.

Think about Brock Osweiler, cut by the Browns at the end of this preseason. He’s 26 years old. He’s made $40 million. And he’s only been sacked 52 times in his entire career! So Osweiler made more than $769,000 per sack taken.

Fewest points in a 16-game season is 140 from the 1992 Seattle Seahawks. I say the Jets challenge that. You tell me how the Jets mount a single 80-yard touchdown drive this season.

Asked the Official Lady Friend of DaBlog, Ms. Sarah Scully, what she thought about the Los Angeles Rams. She responded, “I don’t.”

Andrew Luck is one of the best players in the NFL. And now Chris Ballard has a couple years to rescue Luck from the middle of the ocean, where he was abandoned by a pill-popping owner and the quite possibly insane Ryan Grigson. Colts finish last in the AFC South.

Two quarterbacks who have no business being on their current teams: Tyrod Taylor (Buffalo) and A.J. McCarron (Cincinnati). If the Bills hadn’t brought Tyrod back there’s a good chance he’d be on the Chicago Bears right now, sparing the fan base from the nightmare of Glennon. McCarron is better than all of the quarterbacks on the Jet, Jaguar, Colt (sans Luck) and Niner rosters.

For the most part, I’ve stayed quiet on the Jay Cutler/Dolphins story. But I watched their third preseason game against the Eagles and one word kept springing to mind: comfortable. Jay looked comfortable in that offense, comfortable in that uniform, comfortable within himself at the post-game podium. I’ve never hid my affection for Jay Cutler, the man. I like originals and Cutler has never been anything but himself, even when the fans and media in Chicago were begging for him to be cookie cutter. I don’t think this is going to be a one-year fling with Cutty and Gase in Miami. Watch out for these Dolphins.

Don’t be surprised if Jordan Howard’s numbers (carries and yards) are down from 2016 for two reasons. (1) Tarik Cohen looks like he’s going to get a steady amount of action in a change-of-pace role. (2) Defenses are going to make Glennon beat them as long as Glennon is on the field. And, you know, he can’t.

This column has notoriously expected great things from the Chiefs year-after-year. And in the regular season they have delivered. But even though they’ve won 43 games over the last four seasons, they’ve yet to get by the divisional round of the playoffs. So I’m predicting a down year for Andy Reid and company. This means either (a) they’ll win the Super Bowl or (b) they’ll find themselves middle of the pack mid-season and make the premature move to Patrick Mahomes. Down year. Chiefs.

From the Los Angeles Times: “It is embarrassing, I think, for both the Chargers and the National Football League, to be playing in a 27,000-seat stadium,” the Hall of Fame quarterback [Dan Fouts] said Monday in an interview with KNX-AM (1070).” Anybody wanna bet the Chargers don’t sell that place out, say, 4 times?

Bears leading receiver in 2017: Kendall Wright.

The fatal flaw of the 2016 New York Giants was their offensive line play. The fatal flaw of the 2017 New York Giants? Their offensive line play. It’s the same guys! Keep shuffling those deck chairs, Giants, but the Titanic ain’t missing the iceberg. Giants may have the best defense in the NFL this season but they will whiff block their way out of contention.

You know what I find interesting? The whole “Redskins” debate got replaced by the Kaepernick debate. Haven’t read a single word on “Redskins” this off-season. But it’s Kaepernick, Kaepernick, Kaepernick in every newspaper column, on every sports radio show, on all the screaming morning cable programs. Personally I find the word “Redskins” far more offensive than anything Colin Kaepernick has ever done.

How the NFC North Will Shake Out This Season:

I don’t think this is a particularly good Packers team but who is catching them? They could probably take the NFC North with 9 wins. 10-6.

Vikings are too good on the defensive side of the ball to drop below the two spot and Dalvin Cook will be a star if he keeps his head on straight. 9-7.

No clue what to make of the Lions year-to-year. Feels like 7-9.

Glennon.

If Sheldon Richardson is motivated and sane, the Seahawks defense will be a force. An absolute force. 26 year-old star defensive linemen don’t just get dealt to contenders in August every season.

I just have nothing to say about the San Francisco 49ers. So I looked at their coaching staff page and found out DeMeco Ryans is working there. I found that interesting. Do you? (I don’t actually care.)

Sneaky good thing about Cowboys in 2016? Defense and turnover differential. 14th in yards allowed, 5th in points allowed, 9th in turnover differential.

Most disappointing offensive Bear of 2017: Kevin White. I just get the feeling it’s not going to happen for the kid.

Fun fact about the New Orleans Saints. Since the bounty scandal and ridiculous penalties imposed, the Saints have gone 7-9 four of the last five seasons. That’s almost impressive consistency in this league. But seriously, how is that possible? With Drew Brees and his absurd production? Sean Payton might be the most overrated coach in the league. Prediction for this season: 7-9.

Offensive Rookie of the Year: Christian McCaffrey, Panthers

Pivotal year for Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota. Both have had solid starts to their careers. Both are on up-and-coming teams. But neither had any expectations until 2017. Both the Bucs and Titans are expected to be in the playoffs this year and if they make it their quarterbacks will be the reason why. I’m going to ignore Mariota’s wretched preseason performance against the Bears and say both teams are playing in January.

Matt Ryan’s interceptions the last five seasons:

2012: 14

2013: 17

2014: 14

2015: 16

2016: 7

2017: I say he returns to the land 14-17 and it keeps the Falcons to the 9-win zone.

Bears interception leader this season: Kyle Fuller (5)

Blake Bortles was the only option to start the season for the Jags. His prize? The Houston Texans, one of the sport’s best defenses, in Week One. My prediction: Bortles doesn’t make it through the game.

I’ve got the Steelers opening 5-0 and coasting to an AFC North division title. Pittsburgh is just quietly going about their business again this off-season. A few contract things here and there, which is what happens when you have terrific players. They’re making a run this year.

Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be a Pats fan. There hasn’t been a single season since 2001 that fan base hasn’t entered September believing they are one of the five best teams in the NFL and – most seasons – the best. They’ve been to six Super Bowls during that period. Six! But they’re not getting there this season. (See Super Bowl prediction below.)

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Marlon Humphrey, Ravens

Bears defensive rankings this season: Yards – 12th, Points – 10th. (I’m a big believer in this Bears defense but they are still two key players – a top corner and a second pass rusher – from joining the top of the sport.)

Remember when Deshaun Watson was “ahead of any rookie quarterback” Bill O’Brien had been around? Well he failed to beat out Tom Savage for the starting job in Houston. The Watson Bandwagon went wandering off the trail after that initial preseason game.

Bears record in December: 3-2. (This is operating under the assumption that Trubisky will be playing in December. And no, I’m not convinced that will be the case.)

Chicago Bears Season Prediction

How do you predict this 2017 campaign? Until I know (a) the number of games Mike Glennon will play and (b) the number of games he won’t, how do I accurately appraise the situation? The Bears have the defense and running game to be 8-8 or better. But I think they’ll stick with their starting quarterback too long.

6-10.

Super Bowl Prediction

Seattle’s move for Sheldon Richardson struck me as the confident stroke of an organization that thinks 2017 is their year. And I don’t see a major challenger in that division so it won’t surprise me if they find themselves with home field throughout the NFC playoffs. If that’s the case, nobody is beating them.

And I firmly believe the Raiders were headed to the Super Bowl last season if Derek Carr were still behind center. So why not pick them not only to get to Minneapolis this year but…

If it’s Glennon, it’s 9TDs but he only throws 9TDs the whole season.
IF it’s Trubisky, he throws all 9 to him against the Packers.

Johnnywad

Trubisky is going to have to throw him 12 to account for Glennon’s negative 3.

CanadaBear

Leonard Floyd will need at least 20 sacks to be DPOY. Those guys almost always come from a playoff team. For a player on a shitty team to win, he has to be head and shoulders above everyone else. Sims = 9 TD’s. Really? Are Kyle Fuller’s 5 INT’s with the Bears? Doubtful. The other Bears predictions seem somewhat reasonable.

Good on Jeff to get a nice note from CK but it would mean a lot more if it came from a football guy instead of a fashion designer.

SC Dave

I do like his pick for offensive ROY. I’ve been on the McCaffrey bandwagon since the moment the Panthers picked him. It’s a great situation for him.

Data and Jeff both think this current squad is ready to make a playoff push. Ergo, play Trub who gives better chance to win.

The ‘sit trub’ clan don’t believe this roster is good enough even for a WC. Ergo, why rush Trub?

I think our starters are pretty good, but our depth is shit still recovering from the Angelo/Emery yrs and injuries.

And I got bad news for bears fans. MORE injuries will further deplete our already thin roster because that’s football. Every team must roll with 2nd /3rd stringers eventually, except our 2nd/3rd stringers are dudes like Timu and McMannis. As a Bear fan, I’m just hoping that isn’t till mid season, and it isn’t a historically inj team again.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

“This isn’t a playoff team”

My take: Play him. Let him get through the rookie mistakes where it is not costing us a playoff spot.

I don’t get Jeff’s distaste for learning from the bench as if it can’t be done.

Has he never studied for a test?

Preparation can make a world of difference.

I understand that a rook might learn just as much or more by trial and error but you don’t get decapitated by a 350 pd lineman when you fill in “D” instead of “C” on the scantron.

Give the rook a week or 2. Even just going through the NFL motions of prep, opening day, practice, travel, etc will benefit him, get his body accustomed to the new routine.

DaBearsBlog

Chiefs and Texans are already playoff teams. Bears are light years away.

Johnnywad

Color me shocked that the Redskins controversy is dead.

Nobody outside of a very small handful of Americans gives a shit. And it seems many of that small handful weild a pen for a living.

There are real problems to deal with in life. The name of a football team, however offensive it may be, just doesn’t raise the needle for most folks.

As for Kaep, I find the notion that 32 GMs have banded together to effectively black list a starting caliber quarterback pretty suspect. These guys hire players that beat women and children pretty regularly. In a league where it’s increasingly more difficult to find a quarterback that has the athleticism and brains to be an effective starter, there’s no way he’d sit out if he could still play. The guys just isn’t good enough. The secret sauce left with Harbaugh.

beninnorcal

Couldn’t have said it better myself, Johnnywad. Tired of hearing about both. I used to think Kaep was pretty good, that game against our Bears made me re-think it all. He just isn’t any good without Harbaugh.

King of DBB

Aaron Rodgers in his ESPN interview, flat out says the owners are conspiring against Kap to try and quell the racial overtones that is very dangerous to the NFL.

Brave thing for him to state outright. And he is in a position where his opinion is valuable.

Johnnywad

How the hell would a player know that?

willbest

His warm and fuzzy relationship with Ted Thompson?

King of DBB

How would you, as a fan, know it’s bunk?

Johnnywad

I wouldn’t. But I’m not the one making a claim such as “The owners are conspiring against Kap.”

I just think it’s a silly notion that a group of 32 billionaire owners (excluding the city of Green Bay) would conspire against a single mediocre player and that Aaron Rodgers, would have evidence of it. Makes no sense.

And further, how would conspiring against Kap quell racial racial overtones? If true, wouldn’t that make things worse? If that were their hypothetical aim, the best thing they could do is put him on a major market team and let him protest away in broad daylight, release a statement that its his right, and let the whole thing just run out of gas.

As soon as they realize kneeling during the anthem is doing nothing to stop young black men getting shot by cops, it’ll grow old and fade away.

Corporal Clott

The NFL platform is too big for the Owners to risk one uppity slave throwing a monkey wrench in the works.

willbest

Its an interesting point in our time when 1 uppity slave has the power to halt a $12 billion behemoth.

CanadaBear

I doubt the owners ever talk about it among themselves. I can certainly believe 31 owners (who are pretty conservative by nature) coming to the same conclusion. Unless the guy is very good, why take on the headache. Not to mention he can’t run a typical NFL offense worth a crap. I’ve got nothing against CK but if you’re going to buck the NFL you’d better be really, really good if you want to stay employed.

leftcoastdave

Bunk.

Look at Kaep’s record.

Watch the tape of him being smacked down by da Bears last year.

If he was worth what he was asking, he would be signed. This is a competitive league. If the dude wanted to play, he would lower his price to his perceived value.

Completely agree. The point I’m after here is that there is no larger conspiracy organized against him.

A backup simply isn’t worth the media baggage that comes with that particular backup QB. That doesn’t take secret back door meetings on the QT to work itself out.

leftcoastdave

The league needs to impose affirmative action thought police upon the owners. They should make Jerry Jones hire Kaep for $20m/year as penance for hiring a woman beater.

KentuckyBearsFan

Kaep reminds me of a Saturday Night Live punchline from Norm MacDonald.

He’s “Box Office Poison.”

AlbertInTucson

Kaep: Took Much Baggage.

leftcoastdave

I live on a Rez (yes, a nice one) and among Native Americans, the Redskins cap is the most popular of all. It is not offensive to anyone but those playing the victim game.

There was also a big case at either an appellate court or the Supremes along the lines of “get over it”, but for the life of my I can’t remember which case that was. But it put the legal issue to bed, likely for good.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

If the reporters would quit bringing it up everyone would forget about him by now.

I was one of his biggest supporters on the blog (along with Dave) but when he turned down the Bears offer and accepted way less to move on, that tells you all you need to know. Don’t have anything against him and wish him well but he’s just another WR in the NFL after he left the Beloved.

I was pragmatic about him.
Word was that he was lazy and did bare minimum. But I’m not in that locker room. I don’t know that.
However, after seeing the rest of the league desperate for talent low bal him, I began to give those rumors a bit more credence.

and $15M/yr for that type of player should never be in the plan.

Rather give that $ to Hicks or who ever really wants to ball here in Chi.

Didn’t McBride light up da Bears third string with a TD in PS? Nice to put on the practice squad.

Then there’s Taquan Mizzell. He was picked up because of his great nickname, “Smoke”, as well as ability to catch out of the backfield. And big plus was to piss Irish off because he weighs less than 200 lbs.

Irish Sweetness

God protect Jordan, otherwise ….

leftcoastdave

Wow, a very nice article, but I am wondering how Sims gets all those TD’s if Fuller leads in picks(???).

Another inconsistency (IMHO) is the skepticism about the record, whether Mitchell hits the field, and your belief that he should be starting, which is to say would play better than Mike. If da Bears are losing, Mitchell is starting, no? If Mitchell is not starting, it is because da Bears are winning. What of that logic am I missing?

On another front, I agree Jordan might not do as well as last year, but only because of Tarik the Freak Human Joystick. Yes, I think the box will be loaded, but I also think that is being gamed for with jumbo and play action with three great big targets at TE, very good play out of the slot and many more targets out of the backfield.

Finally, I am picking da Bears to have a 9-7 floor. Four wins against the Lions and Viqueen, three from the Browns, 9ers, and Bengels make 7, and at least two more from either the Pack, Steelers, Falcons, Bucks, Ravens, Panthers, Eagles or Aints.

Just watch the tape on the 9ers Viqueen game and you will see “Da Destroyer” light them up in the first half and their O line suck eggs.

Da Bears will own the trenches in the NFC North and that is what will win the division.

I dunno. Halice is pretty high on Bear juice and other things.
Data made the argument that with Trub, the bears are SB bound.

That’s some potent kool-aid to compete against.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

12-4 with Glennon. – only because of D and ST.
16-0 with Trubs.

leftcoastdave

For the record:

I think 12-4 can happen.

I think Mike will play better than expected and perhaps start 2-2.

I think Mitchel will get into games early and often.

And all bets are off if the O line does not get Kyle Long back at 80% and another one of the middle three goes down.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

I wish I shared your optimism about Glennon.

leftcoastdave

I think we saw what is being planned for with that 95 yard drive against the Titans. Three TE’s to go Jumbo and be play action short to intermediate range targets, quick releases to the slot and targets coming out of the backfield. Da Bears are expecting people to load the box. Unless you have a proven arm to make them pay, what is the next best thing to do?
That was not unveiled in the first two games. It was in number three. See also who they chose to claim off the waiver wire. A proven receiver out of the backfield and a good potential replacement built like Cam Meridith.

Say what you want about Pace, he has put the pieces together around Mike Glennon which are best designed for him to succeed.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

sorry but I don’t buy it. 1 good drive against a team with a worse secondary than we have. Multiple inaccurate passes (still caught but often off the mark), staring down receivers. His inaccuracy is going to get a WR killed. Good DBs are going to jump routes on him.

Irish Sweetness

We have neither the depth on offense and certainly not on defense to make any SBs. We are a long way from being a SB squad.

Just like with pitchers, shoulder injuries for QB’s is a bad, bad thing.

AlbertInTucson

“Labrum Repair.”

Bad for anybody, let alone your QB.

CanadaBear

Surgeons can fix elbows and re-attach nerves but when it comes to shoulders everything is pretty iffy. Complete recovery from shoulder surgery for a NFL QB is quite rare. Usually they lose their fastball if nothing else.

AlbertInTucson

SMH.

Remarkably stupid handling by Indy.

They tank to get him, then completely whiff on protecting their most important asset.

CanadaBear

The Bears are incompetent but being a fan of the Colts would REALLY try your patience.

I put the over/under for Trubisky starts at 8.5. I’ll be shocked if he’s not the starting QB coming out of the bye, which would be 8.

I won’t be surprised if Glennon is benched by the end of the 4th game, though John Fox will stick with him way too long if he can just not turn the ball over, even if he’s not moving the offense or scoring points.

SC Dave

After the bye is very believable, unless Glennon is way far from the expected one direction or another.

Much like the Rams last year.
Except that the Chicago media market is much more vocal.
I don’t know if Fox can withstand “When are you starting Trubisky” Beyond WK 4 (IF Glennon sucks balls)

The yokals were already (still are) demanding Trub start.
The Titan’s game somewhat quieted the mob, but it will only take 1 bad Glennon game before they bring out the pitch fork and torches again, at which point Fox will succumb.

that one makes no sense to me either. Give the 23 year old a chance before bringing in a 30 year old.

leftcoastdave

Why?

Why not have the proven dude?

willbest

No doubt. How about you give the guy who could be around 15 years a shot at it. I didn’t see him mess up in game, so maybe Barth didn’t like him. Then again, Barth and POD are not exactly long term answers. I will say POD looked better in this PS than he did at any time in his previous 3 years.

I was thinking about McCoy as my #1 FF back, but it looks like the Bills are tanking and Peterson may take over QBing sooner than anyone thinks.

Bender McLugh

Remember when Deshaun Watson was “ahead of any rookie quarterback” Bill O’Brien had been around? Well he failed to beat out Tom Savage for the starting job in Houston. The Watson Bandwagon went wandering off the trail after that initial preseason game.

#Trubisky

willbest

When I read that I knew Jeff is playing the long troll on Trubisky.

leftcoastdave

Liking this:

With the Bears likely to lean on their tight ends and
running backs in the passing game to compensate for a particularly
nondescript wide receiver corps, Mizzell’s production as a receiver
likely intrigued them. Mizzell caught 195 passes for 1,560 yards and
seven touchdowns at Virginia — the most receptions for a running back in
ACC history. He caught at least one pass in 45 consecutive games — all
but his first college game in 2013. He was a bit of a surprise cut by
the Ravens, who likely had hoped to sign him to their practice squad.

Jonathan Williams (released by Buffalo) maybe. He’s quite intriguing. And no there is no direct replacement. I do think Cohen, Mizzell and Cunningham catching out the backfield will be very useful to an OC like Loggains. Glennon will certainly have plenty of options even if they are shallow at WR.

Are you telling me some neo nazi/white supremacist/Trumper didn’t ram his car through protestors?

I agree, not everyone is that extreme, but this country is still divided.

That was the biggest fear of the founding fathers. That’s why if you look at the quater, there’s an eagle with hay between talons

e plurbis unum

Out of many, one.

The metaphor is that one hay straw is weak, but many bundled together is strong.

But that doesn’t seem like the landscape as of now, and maybe not going forward.

Unless of course, Irish’s Alien false flag is nigh.

leftcoastdave

Oh, please. Just like the Bernie wacko took target practice on the Republican baseball team?

Duh? How stoopid do you want to be?

The anarchists dressed in black and covering their faces are better than those few neo nazi wack jobs? “No Trump, No wall, No USA?” Wasn’t that their chant in out here in Kalyphonya this week?

F’ the USA?

The lame stream media have never been so partisan and never so irrelevant. Objectivity has gone by the wayside.

They are all partisans now, no pretense of objectivity.

Journalism is dead.

SC Dave

The media is in fact little more than propaganda, and has been for a looong time now.

Cormonster

Was he a Trumper? The leader of that NAZI rally said he was a Bernie supporter.

leftcoastdave

I’ve read too many good civil war histories to ever think to glorify what went down. The fighters on both sides were heroic and believed in defending their cause. It was not all about slavery for the dudes in the trenches, despite the modern meme. They were all led into battle, ugly, hopeless and silly confrontations of slaughter based upon tactics of a past era. It was sickening and never to be repeated, thank God, at least not until the “great powers” repeated the tragedy in the trenches of France in WWI.

Wars seem to be bloody depending on the tech.
For instance, science was way ahead of conventional warfare during WWI.

The human psyche was not ready for tanks, machine guns, gas, airplanes, trench warfare.
That’s why many burnt out. I mean there was still CALVARY units.

I feel the same kinda happened during the civil war. Guns/cannons were being used more than ever, and they were most effective at close range, and at the time, they were rather ineffective, with many dying in agonizing deaths over days, which was compounded with practically medieval medicine.

In a strange way, modern warfare is probably less brutal.

You get gunned down by a 50 caliber or bombed by a predator, you die Immediately.

leftcoastdave

For better or worse, we value our soldiers like never before. No more charges into cannon fire. No more huddling in trenches to be gassed. Rather we have the technology and the trained soldiers to rain down hell upon anyone in their way. That was perfected in close air/ground combat as witnessed in Desert Storm. When we were ready to move, it was like a hot knife through butter. The warthogs took out any semblance of armor and our armored forces went unchecked. Only GHWB decided not to continue shooting the fish in a barrel and let the Iraqi’s retreat to live another day. Question that wisdom as you will, but their retreating forces were set up for the slaughter, but for our restraint.

That is today’s reality. Us restraining our capabilities, for better or worse. Ask the grunts who were in Vietnam if that was a good thing. Ask the Cambodians. Ask the victims of ISIS who only gained power because Barry O did not want to maintain power in Iraq. Ask the Kurds who were similarly victimized by that political decision of Barry O who pulled out our troops and then chose to rain death down from the sky.

I guess if you pulled the troops out, you are no longer responsible for the people you kill with drones.

Elect A Clown. Expect A Circus

I am all for charges into cannon fire if the soldiers include poor black and white kids as well as sons of rich assholes and war-mongering politicians.

So I thank Barack Obama for saving lives of many kids from poor neighborhoods in Raleigh to farms in Nebraska. So much better things to do than dying in a godforsaken place in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Much better than Chickenhawk Orange Chimpanzee talking up empty war threats but himself was a draft dodger in Vietnam due to..wait for it.. bone spurs. LOL!
When everyone goes to war to die – poor, underprivileged to rich assholes like Orange chimpanzee and his litter from 3 wives or well connected assholes like Dick Cheney or Bill Clinton – then we can have endless wars and send charges into cannon.

7source7

Put down the doobie fat boy…

Irish Sweetness

Unfortunately we’re valuing soldiers and shaming people who don’t, but we’re not valuing citizens at all.

Corporal Clott

If being a citizen is considered a badge of honor, count me out. I’d rather keep my soul intact thank you very much.

SC Dave

Your GHWB comment is not correct, in that the cream of the Iraqi Army was essentially liquidated. The “failure” was to respect the UN supported mandate to kick Iraq out of Kuwait and not “finish the job” by taking out Saddam.

There was, of course, the practical reality of not leaving Iraq prostrate in the face of a hostile Iran, but that is a story for another day.

Also, blaming us for Pol Pot seems a stretch, but I will confess ignorance how that all came about. I suppose one could cite that if one believes in the notion that American power is responsible for righting wrongs worldwide. IMO we can no longer afford that, either financially or politically.

Corporal Clott

Hogwash!

America is the hammer that has brought down the nations through piracy.

I’ll take outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes for a thousand please Alex!

SC Dave

Mass artillery was the great killer of 20th century warfare, especially WWI.

beninnorcal

Looks pretty damn cool

Irish Sweetness

Looks like medal of honor circa 2000!

BearDown100393

Send the political hacks instead of innocent kids to the line. Or find a dragon.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

Wow I just found out that the Atlanta Falcons have no single game tickets for their new stadium. You must buy a season ticket and also a PSL. The only way to go to a single game is to go through the secondary market. That is fucked up.

Look a the fuck-stick that owns them. Dogs are like their owners. Teams are like their owners. Jerrah was a go-getter like Al Davis. They got Lombardis while they still had some juice. The Steelers and Giants. Old school manners and money.

Our team is a 94 year-old woman that never played a down in her life.

BearDown100393

And that is why stadiums never should be built using tax dollars. Pay your teachers and emergency responders instead.

Tucson is STILL paying off bonds for the spring training facilities built for the White Sox, Dodgers and Rockies who all packed up and moved to Phoenix YEARS ago.

willbest

Considering the only way to get single game tickets to the Bears outside of their $300+ club zone is to win the refresh lottery against the scalper bots that buy them all up in the first 15 minutes, I don’t really give a toss.

The owners are a bit silly though. They love the predictability and certainty of season ticket holders and the bilking that occurs for the preseason, but they would make substantially more of they ran a blind auction. Sure their preseason sales would take a nose dive, but they could convert those into family service events. Like do all inclusive packages for 4 or 6 people that include parking, food, and drink. If you can get it into the $200-250 range, effectively competing with Medieval Times, you would sell out the stadium.

I had about 10k lying around back in 2015 but for some reason was paying no attention to the market at that time. Tough not to Monday morning QB that oversight.
Also I wonder if China will close their state sponsored Bitcoin mining operations. Nah, prolly not.

Hey, the QB I thought more NFL ready than Watson or Mahomes may start before either. Although, I don’t know if the Bills throwing him out there on a crappy team with no weapons outside McCoy is a good thing.

“At this point, Taylor’s status for Week 1 is up in the air, but the Bills are still holding out hope. If Taylor can’t go, McDermott has faith in Peterman, who put together an impressive preseason, going
43-for-79 passing for 453 yards and one touchdown.

“He is ready,” McDermott said. “When you look at what he’s done throughout the preseason. I’m confident and we’re extremely confident inNathan. I expect that he’s only going to continue to get better, just like all of our young players, all of our players as a matter of fact. That’s what this is about. This about development in terms of a young player.”

While Peterman impressed in the preseason, this is hardly what the Bills planned for when they drafted him in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL Draft. In fact, Peterman started off as the third-string quarterback.”

Gentry right now is one trick pony. All he knows is to run go route. It worked against 3rd stringers. But he ain’t running by any NFL CB on a go route. He is simply not fast enough. So he needs to diversify his route tree and refine his moves. That will take time. But he has Meredith’s success to guide him along the path. Likely other teams/scouts saw this as well and so he went unclaimed.

Good short piece on Rob-Roy (or RRH). Holy moly, I didn’t think he was that big.

6’7 250, and he shot up FORTY pounds to 294. That’s like Peppers mountain.

“[RRH] put on a little weight in the offseason, still came in with that explosion, that twitch and that raw athleticism that you want up there,”linebacker Danny Trevathan said. “I’ve been pleased with him, I’m
excited for him.

“… He’s a playmaker, he’s a guy that plays quick with that twitch and he loves the game of football. You can’t coach that.”

We all take shots at Pace. But Ballard here makes no sense. What the hell is “training phase”?

They are all the same and go to same school where they are taught to bullshit reporters and fans.
—
Mike Chappell‏Verified account
@mchappell51
Colts GM Chris Ballard: Andrew Luck timetable. Still no timetable. In training phase. Will be OUT this week vs. Rams

” Packer fans think they are special…They are not. They’re humps. Frauds. Narcissists. SHITBAGS. They are emblematic of a very specific kind of American reverse dysmorphic
disorder, where you look in the mirror and see some All-American stud
instead of the sad, worthless asshole you really are”

Irish, the house is being bet on:
3 Game Parlay on the money lines
Falcons over Bears (Glennon sucks and poses no threat/Not my quarterback)
Steelers over Browns (this will be a true ass kicking and Kizer is fucked)
Rams over Colts (without Andrew Luck)

Usually i don’t bet on one average team beating a shitty one like the Rams but without Luck the Colts will suck even more than usual. I also don’t usually bet my entire bank roll on the first week but this is just one of those weeks.

AlbertInTucson

Bookies LOVE when you play parlays.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

I employ very strict filters. I may even eliminate the Rams game.

Irish Sweetness

Yah. I was going to just bet straight games this year … if I had any money.

Sebastian Jankowski is about to come lose tomorrow. Raiders tried out 3 kickers today including Nugent. This is no brainer for Pace. Pay him and lock down a top kicker for first 5 years of Trub’s career.

I would LOVE to believe Floyd can stay on the field long enough to make that a fact.

Of course, pessimist that I am, I don’t.

CanadaBear

I’ll be happy if he improved his tackling technique. I do think he can be a big star if he can stay on the field. Really worry about KO’s with him (receiving not delivering).

AlbertInTucson

Tennessee- Georgia Tech.

Very entertaining.

AlbertInTucson

…and is just headed for O.T.

AlbertInTucson

Vols stuff a Tech 2-point attempt to win it.

AlbertInTucson

“How the NFC North will shake out…”

Jim Miller picked the same order and same records today on NFL radio.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

I bet Jim is a lurker.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

Is lurker code for steroid cheater that had one semi decent season and now is somehow the voice of all things QB in Chicago?

CanadaBear

Of all the guys that got popped for steroids Miller was the most unlikely. FFS, I’m built better than he was at the time and I’m nobody’s idea of body beautiful. He’s one of the few that I actually believe when he said it was from a supplement. I like Miller and think he’s a decent analyst.

AlbertInTucson

“Stats for Alshon…”

Less than12 yards per catch?

Ew.

willbest

Good catch

15.3, 16.0, 13.3, 14.9, 15.8 are what he has done over his 5 NFL seasons. So apparently the Eagles have no intention of using Jeffery the way the Bears did.

AlbertInTucson

Frankly, I’d take those numbers for Kevin White this season.

Hopefully, even in more games played.

SC Dave

Jeff just wants to pretend it was Cutler msking Jeffery look good rather than vice versa.

AlbertInTucson

5 picks for Kyle Fuller.

Or, 3 less than the entire team made last season.

AlbertInTucson

“Bears record in December, 3-2.”

THAT would be refreshing.

Their first winning December since 2010.

Corporal Clott

No sweat Al, it’s in the bag.

Irish Sweetness

In honor of MB, wherever he may be ….

Air Afrikaans.

Beef or cow?

Irish Sweetness

Bitcoin drops 20%. Somewhere GP is eyeing up a wardrobe with an orange in his mouth ….

Gotta say you’re in withdrawal more than me. I saw the lowlights and that was enough. Can’t wait for Sunday!

Irish Sweetness

What’s the under – over on weeks after being benched when Glennon asks for a trade? BOOM!
Two paychecks, that’s what’s dearest to Mrs. Glennon’s heart.

Hey Falesy! Has any player ever been signed three times by the Bears after having played for another team the previous season? Trubs – Sanchise – Falesy. Ditch the salary.

leftcoastdave

New #’s blog.

Bears-4-Ever

If Glennon is a bust, which it would seem Jeff thinks so, it would only take a few good sacks/hits to get him knocked out. Maybe the O-line can do us that favor if Glennon starts shitting the bed and leading us down the wrong road. Oops I missed by block..whoops I didn’t pick up that Blitz…

As I’ve said before, the Bears Owners/Coaches seem to always make the wrong call when the right one is needed most…Perhaps the players themselves can do something about that…Just saying.

Glennon is starting, but for how long…that is the biggest question. If he does half way decent he’s staying put which means the Bears have a half way decent season but NOT a winning one. I’m hoping the kid gets his chance earlier than that. Hope only goes so far.

CanadaBear

You’re hoping a teammate intentionally takes a dive to get Glennon hurt? Really?

Bears-4-Ever

You don’t think this hasn’t happened in the NFL over the years? NFL Conspiracy 101.

CanadaBear

Don’t have any idea. Don’t really care. My issue is you are advocating for a player to get hurt. Definitely bad juju.

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

advocating a player get hurt because of the actions or inactions of a teammate is bad. Wishing he has a non contact injury or a non football related injury is not as bad.

CanadaBear

We’re talking degrees here. Any time you’re hoping someone gets injured, that’s a bad thing. I don’t want Erin to get injured. Would I feel bad if he got injured. Nope.

Corporal Clott

It’s never wise to tempt the cause and effect gods.

CanadaBear

Yeah, I don’t get rooting for an injury to an opponent. It’s a game, FFS. I totally get hoping someone you know personally and hate, has bad shit happen to them.

Bender McLugh

VADGERS

“Modestly” Huge Bears Penis

what if its a funny injury? Say Glennon hurts his back when a tree branch falls on him while grazing on some leaves of said tree. And as far as Erin, he was trying out his new giant butt plug and it got stuck so it needed to be surgically removed.

CanadaBear

Well, in that case …

BearDown100393

Dallas must have really hated Romo….

Bears-4-Ever

You’re all correct of course. No one should hope someone gets injured. All I really want is Glennon on the bench in some way, shape or form and early in the season. I just don’t see him taking the Bears anywhere but the crapper. I hope I am dead wrong he’s actually a Football Cyborg that leads us to another SB in 2017. Odds are he is as bad as most of us think. But no, I don’t want him spitting up blood or anything, maybe just a broken thumb on the throwing hand. That should be enough.

CanadaBear

Glad you’re coming around!

King of DBB

Jocks on the Score said yesterday that the decision to put Trub on the roster was not John Fox’s to make. That it’s come down from on top that Butt Fumble goes in if Glennon goes down.

Not to say I told ya so…

CanadaBear

Of course, this means you believe the jocks on the score. I think I’d need to see a little proof before I bought that hook, line and sinker.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

haha, Canada, you may have misspoke or I misinterpreted GP post! No one on the fucking Score is a jock. Parkins is a fucking nerd ass geek. Spiegel is fucking 400lbs, Goff may be 350, Bernstein is a fucking sock puppet, Boers was an old weirdo, Mully looks like he’s filled with gelatin, Hanley is Buscemi from Lebowski, etc.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

That is a cold blooded avatar. Hurtful even.

King of DBB

The Pacebot 2000 does not understand butt hurt or feelings. The Pacebot is concerned with maximizing self-preservation. That is it’s prime directive.

Johnnywad

You’re either so much smarter than me that I can’t imagine to think like you……or you’re nuts. I don’t know which.

How does putting your excellent young QB talent that you stuck your neck and balls out to draft, on the bench, despite everybody already seeing he is, in fact talented, somehow preserve his job? His job isn’t in jeopardy to begin with.

I just can’t get from A to B here.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

Because he gets to pull a Fischer and use the kid sitting as the excuse to keep building and biding his time.

Fisher was fired.
And if Fox loses like that again, he’s gone too no matter who’s at QB.

Suns Out, Buns out, Ciggy In

haha, not exactly like Fischer.
I’ll keep it simple. With the playbook they’re going to be limited to with Glennon there is simply no reason not to have Mitch run the same conservative shit with some spice added in.
We’re not asking him to run Martz’s system here guys, he’d be dumping it asap like Glennon is told to do anyway.
I’m done discussing it. Glennon is not a weapon. Trubisky may just be. If the D balls out and we lose because of average O play and no real threats to other teams there will be hell to pay. If the D fucking sucks then it won’t matter what Glennon does and the fans will be less pissed. We’ll see now won’t we?

I’m no Fox fan. I think he’s gone regardless cuz Pace just got his QB, and he’s going to want his HC next season.

I mean, Lovie got fired after winning like 10 games.

It’ll take Fox and gang some MAJOR overachieving to remain employed.

Personally, I think Fox is resigned to it, taking one for Pace while Trub sits on the bench until the fan crescendo can’t be ignored anymore, which by then, would be too late anyways.

King of DBB

Playing the kid is a risk. A risk mitigated by Glennon.

Having the kid gives the faithful hope for the future.

But if he pushes Glennon aside, and the kid falters – and looks bad – and Glennon has to come BACK – then Pace has hurt himself. He looks like he may have reached for a guy that may not pan out. Not worth risking.

Johnnywad

Ok. I can see how that makes some sense. I just disagree with it.

Trubisky showed all the tools. We saw enough raw talent to understand why Pace reached. I think if he played this year, made mistakes, and looked raw, all but the dimmest of fans would understand.

On the other hand, if he sits all year, then comes out next year and sucks, and Glennon sucks on top of that, that’s a bad look.

My belief is Pace is bullet proof this year. Net net is next year. I don’t think a rough go from Trubisky this season gets him fired. It’s almost expected. But the kid has to show well next year one way or the other. Whether that be on the back of a season of football games, or a year of practice is inconsequential.

Now if the kid plays this year, say half a season, and looks good……..Pace has a hell of a lot more leash.

Irish Sweetness

They didn’t tell him they were drafting Mitch, he’s not in the picture. This is clear. If Fox really had control, he’d start Mitch in order to save his job.

It’s not rocket science. A complete reading of history in context spells out clearly what this world is all about. People get confused about what’s really going on because they are not able to accept that the only thing govt. is good at is lying to the people and stealing from them. People don’t want to know the truth because they can’t handle it.

“It is hard to conduct a dialogue with people who confuse Austria with
Australia, but there is nothing we can do about this. It seems to be the
level of political culture in a certain part of the U.S.
establishment,” Putin said

King of DBB

Except that *is* an interesting story.

Fox knows the fishing boat is getting warmed up for him. He’s an old school old timer, and say what you will – the guy has some pride. Players like him and I think they *see* he’s being fucked over by the ownership and GM in some ways.

But also the GM and the family need to show Chicago something, because this team’s ratings are on the rope. Ratings for the pre-season games at Fox32 were down by over 20% in August compared to previous years. So they need to give Foxy and Fangio enough talent to make something happen and try and make it to .500

So what happens? Does Fox just not care anymore? Or is he going to really be a pisser and coach up a team nobody believes in and try and go 10-6 and make it to the wildcard, such that when they DO shitcan him, there is some blowback?

And that is why the story is interesting. Pace needs them to not repeat last year, but also wants to set his own agenda in motion. 8-8 does that perfectly. 10-6 and a playoff run actually fucks over Pace’s plan.

King of DBB

Irma going to push the Fish out of Miami for the game. Cutler dooooooon’t care.

I know. Maybe I should take some classes from M. Night Shyamalan and construct a needless labyrinthine plot to explain decisions from HCs with the IQ of gump.

Fox is no Machiavellian mastermind, I assure fans of that.

Irish Sweetness

Or he doesn’t want him killed in an avalanche of nasty defenses.

Malice Halice

Update on the Duluth trip: Couldn’t do anything I wanted to do because the prices for most activities was expensive( n my lady’s a bitch). However, given the fact I made my frustrations well aware to my girl I was rewarding some fantastic chewy. The best part of the trip was driving the entire North scenic highway to da Canada border. The view in Grand Portage (borderline Canada) was phenomenal!

CanadaBear

It’s a truly beautiful area.

Malice Halice

Yea it is

Corporal Clott

Thanks for the short hand version. Lol

Corporal Clott

“I rooted for Hoyer even though he sucked. Rooted for Barkley hard even though he sucked worse. I will root for sucky Glennon” – Surly Jeff

Jess Jeff, I know you will suck it up and root hard for whoever is behind center. At the end of the day, there can be no other way.

BearDown100393

“I always hate the Giraffe”
– Next tweet

Corporal Clott

Lol, Jeff reminds me of Gollum. One day he’s dancing and frollicking beneath the waterfall, ecstatic over his Trubinsky narrative, then the next thread he’s cursing the nasty Glennon hobbits’s.

Behind that Oline and Dak, heck yeah. You know how many 3 down back on a run oriented team with the best Oline there are? One. Zeke. Now McFadden.

“Working behind Dallas’ offensive line in 2015, McFadden accrued 1,417
yards on 279 touches. Working as the lead back from Weeks 7-17 that
year, he averaged the same carry share and a slightly larger target
share than Elliott did in 2016”